“When we saw what the kids were going through and the grief of the parents and the kids who were killed in Parkland, we felt we needed to do something,” said the company's CEO.
Purdue’s promotions exaggerated the drug’s safety and risks of addiction, leaning heavily on one sentence used by sales reps to market the drug to doctors.
The Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500 have dropped 10 percent from their all-time highs. That means they are in a "correction," their first in almost two years.